My advice any time I see someone complaining about a subscription model is to consider an open source alternative. Depending on your use and requirements, Krita might work for you. (I say "might" because drawing/paint software is complex and often works very differently across programs.)
I really wish Americans would get over their obsession with rich people and start thinking about caring for poor people.
Visited your site; was disappointed to see your primary platform is Discord. They lost my trust when they let me sign up using email, but when I went to post they demanded my mobile number. This is extremely user hostile—that number is PII— and I refuse to use them. Please consider alternatives.
Note that the $15,000 support is also for “travelling to meet a new or existing client, partner, supplier or investor.” The government's hope is the $15,000 is an investment that will see a return to the economy in the form of improved business opportunities, sales, and investment.
Just to let you know, you're missing #3249. Maybe you could sneak one with that number into the feed some time next week?
Just remember that for every case of arson that makes it into the press over the course of a year, hundreds of thousands of businesses went many, many years with none at all.
Some context would be nice. What festival? Where? Please remember, your audience is world-wide.
Very much looking forward to seeing the humidity results as well.
A little context would be nice. What the heck is T2? There are LOTS of movies that with a "2" designation.
You're BLOCKED! This post is useless, utter crap, and dumps on a beloved childhood series of books. I've also reported it.
It's a neat quip, but please be advised Sun Tzu never said this. If you ever post this again, kindly remove the reference to Sun Tzu.
Call them what they really are: CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
Close, but my post covers primarily US *government* expenditure, which exceeds Canada's while serving only half the population. The capitalism part blows expenditures out of the water while delivering worse results. Strange thing is, capitalism is often very good at delivering, but not in health.
Healthcare Spending in the United States and Canada (All values in US dollars) US: $17,000/person | Canada: $6,700/person US spending breakdown Public Sector (Federal and state governments, 2024): • $866 B on Medicare to cover 62 million; $13,675/person • $900 B on Medicaid to cover 84 million; $10,380/person • $71 B on Veteran’s Health to cover 6.3 million; $11,269/veteran • $23 B on CHIP (Children) to cover 3.2 million; $7190/child • $7 B on IHA (Indian Health) to cover 1.6 million; $4,375/person $1.9 T to cover 157 million people ($12,100/beneficiary; $5,588/capita) • $600 B State and local government expenditures $2.5 T to cover 330 million people in the States legally; $7,350/capita Private Sector: • $2.8 T private insurance and out-of-pocket; $8,240/capita Overall Expenditure: • $5.8 T total healthcare spending for 340 million people; $17,059/capita Total US spending is $17,000/person, including taxes, private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and insurer profit. Canada spending breakdown • $6,480 ($US)/person universal single-payer program • $6,700 ($US)/person total, including dental, pharmaceuticals, eyeglasses, hearing aids Canada has better outcomes ✅ +3.4 years life expectancy ✅ 26% lower infant mortality ✅ 30% lower under-5 mortality ✅ 50% lower maternal mortality ✅ 26% lower age-standardized cancer mortality (deaths per 100,000) ✅ 30% lower age-standardized heart disease mortality (deaths per 100,000) ✅ 42% lower obesity prevalence (adults, BMI ≥ 30) BOTTOM LINE: Canada as a whole spends less per capita ($US 6,700) to cover 100% of its population than the various US governments spend ($US 7,350) to cover about half its population, while getting better outcomes.
In the United States, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results.
Have these researchers learned nothing about archiving? The idea is stupid because it requires advanced technology to read. In as little as fifty years the tech will be lost. Ref: the BBC digital Domesday book.
What's an "ill open comms"? A commons that's closed due to illness?
That's it! This must have appeared a DOZEN TIMES in my Discovery feed. I'm muting your damned self-aggrandizing bloviating feed. I don't *care* how good your book is; I don't need to see a post about twice every ****ing day.
Google lost my trust years ago. They're banned from my system in DNS, as well as most Google sites being listed in /etc/hosts with an address 0.0.0.0. The only problem with this is idiot webmasters who think using Google ReCAPTCHA on their feedback forms is a good idea; it's overkill for most sites.
Healthcare Spending in the United States and Canada (All values in US dollars) US: $17,000/person | Canada: $6,700/person US spending breakdown Public Sector (Federal and state governments, 2024): • $866 B on Medicare to cover 62 million; $13,675/person • $900 B on Medicaid to cover 84 million; $10,380/person • $71 B on Veteran’s Health to cover 6.3 million; $11,269/veteran • $23 B on CHIP (Children) to cover 3.2 million; $7190/child • $7 B on IHA (Indian Health) to cover 1.6 million; $4,375/person $1.9 T to cover 157 million people ($12,100/beneficiary; $5,588/capita) • $600 B State and local government expenditures $2.5 T to cover 330 million people in the States legally; $7,350/capita Private Sector: • $2.8 T private insurance and out-of-pocket; $8,240/capita Overall Expenditure: • $5.8 T total healthcare spending for 340 million people; $17,059/capita Total US spending is $17,000/person, including taxes, private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and insurer profit. Canada spending breakdown • $6,480 ($US)/person universal single-payer program • $6,700 ($US)/person total, including dental, pharmaceuticals, eyeglasses, hearing aids Canada has better outcomes ✅ +3.4 years life expectancy ✅ 26% lower infant mortality ✅ 30% lower under-5 mortality ✅ 50% lower maternal mortality ✅ 26% lower age-standardized cancer mortality (deaths per 100,000) ✅ 30% lower age-standardized heart disease mortality (deaths per 100,000) ✅ 42% lower obesity prevalence (adults, BMI ≥ 30) BOTTOM LINE: Canada as a whole spends less per capita ($US 6,700) to cover 100% of its population than the various US governments spend ($US 7,350) to cover about half its population, while getting better outcomes.
I'm really sad to see how bad the healthcare insurance can be in the States. Here's a cost comparison with Canada, which has a public system with some private options. For the US, the Swiss or German system with a closely regulated private insurance market would probably work best.
Beautiful picture. Given the tiny size of many of the mosses and lichens you've posted here, you must have a very good macro lens on your camera.
(2/2) That number is Personally Identifying Information and in my opinion Discord had no business asking for it. I was also incensed at the bait and switch: during sign-up there was no indication I would have to supply a mobile number in order to use the service. I closed the account immediately.
(1/2) I soured on Discord the instant I signed up for it. It let me complete the sign-up process via email and said I had access. But the very first time I went ti use it, I was greeted with a request to supply my mobile number for verification. NO WAY!
Video is very cute!
The presentation can use improvement. Putting a 1080x608 landscape mode video on a 1080x1920 portrait canvas makes it awfully small for viewing, especially on a phone. KIndly consider posting such videos without the padding. Most phones rotate the image when rotating 90°.
Fascinating! Do you have any idea of where and when this picture was taken?
I see there aren't any women in the room. Things have changed since then.
Question for the poster: at what latitude are you? DST benefits are more noticeable the further north you go. I'm in western Canada at 50°N latitude. Without DST, the sun would rise at 4:45 AM in the summer and set at 8:45 PM. With DST it's 5:45 AM to 9:45 PM, with twilight to almost 10:30 PM.
I realize you're mildly dyslexic and probably shouldn't comment on typos in your posts, but I suggest a "seasonal effective" phase is the likely follow-on to a "seasonal affective" phase.
Hang in there! Depression sucks, and I hope you can find some relief for it.
Way too good to be AI slop! 😀👍
The same one-hour shift at ~30° N, where winter sunrise is already nearer 7:00 am is far less disruptive. The reverse happens in the fall, when clocks are set back and sunrise returns to its earlier hour.
2. The impact of the DST shift grows with latitude. At 50°N the seasonal swing in daylight is large: ≈ 16 h of daylight in midsummer vs. ≈ 8 h in mid-winter. Moving the clock forward by one hour in spring pushes a summer sunrise that would naturally be around 4:00 am to 5:00 am.
